The Tropical Fruit Forum

Quote from: JR561 on February 27, 2023, 01:37:02 PM

Quote from: johnb51 on February 27, 2023, 01:17:29 PM

Quote from: Calusa on February 27, 2023, 11:33:31 AM

Hot, dry Springs in Florida are not uncommon. I investigated having an irrigation well installed in my back yard but the $3,500+ cost just to irrigate a few fruit trees nullified that option. So I setup a rain barrel next to my shed with a guttering system attached to the shed to catch the runoff from the roof and through the downspout into the barrel. I'll likely add an additional barrel later on.

Very smart.  We should be doing more of that.

Im actually doing the same.

Some of my plants cant handle the city water at all.

My city water has chloramine added to it which does not dissipate with time, so filling a barrel with the hose and letting it sit for a week to evaporate (like chlorine does) won't work. This stuff kills beneficial microbes in the soil in addition to the fact that it is just not good for the health of the plants. But yeah it's been dry lately - we need some rain!!!

Chloramines can be fairly easily removed via multiple processes - simple & involved - activated carbon, UV irradiation, RO and more. I imagine the most interesting/beneficial for growers is humic acid - low dilution factor and apparent pros of adding humic acid to soil.

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Awesome - sent message over

The wild groves here will be getting ripe in the next few weeks. I'd be happy to send out some fruit if you're interested in trying a wild-type pawpaw

Thats interesting, both are Microcitrus X Microcitrus hybrids.
Also UF Red is possibly the only type of Red Fingerlime, australasica var sanguinea resulting from crossing and selection.
I think all the Fingerlime cultivars in Australia are straight selections from the wild.

Has Judy Viola gone into much detail about the process of producing/finding the many varieties she has put out? The few details I find online about her work simply state that they are "collected in the field", or something to that effect. It is fascinating to me that there would be that much diversity in the wild without any breeding and/or human intervention. 

Looks like eugenia reinwardtiana to me

I would love to see some pics of the Erem x shikawasa plant and fruit if it has fruited.

You might've seen this already but these are the only online pics I can find - they are pretty good though
http://idtools.org/id/citrus/citrusid/factsheet.php?name=Eremocitrus%20x%20Shekwasha

Hi Piss P,

     I find the Kabosu fruit to be quite good.  They're very round (hence the Sphaerocarpa in the Latin name), larger than a yuzu and have a complex flavor I enjoy, somewhat like Meyer lemons with a touch of grapefruit.  They have far fewer seeds than the Yuzu, and most years even fewer seeds than the Sudachi.
 They're just sweet enough you can eat them out of hand if your taste tends to the sour end.  Unlike the Yuzu, the peel is not aromatic and less flavorful, but it still has a nice lemony flavor. 
     I use them mainly for the juice, and to make marmalade during years, like this one, when my Yuzu has very few fruit.
     I haven't had a chance to test the hardiness yet but, given that it is closely related to Yuzu and Sudachi, it could well be hoped to be as hardy as those two.

Jim

I appreciate the information! I'll have to keep on the lookout for one - love the Japanese citrus' variety in flavor profiles

Is this something I could do myself through grafting?

There have been constructed graft hybrids between Tomato and Solanum nigrum.
If I remember correctly one technique was to split a bud eye in half, and match in another half from the other plant.
When the healed bud shoots out, it grows as a chimera shoot.
Accidental graft chimeras probably grow from callus shoots at the graft union.

I've looked into this and came across a few research papers on it. I can't seem to find the publication that I remember being quite helpful but here is another with useful information https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/INTERVARIETAL-CHIMERA-FORMATION-BY-GRAFTING-IN-By-A-Zhou-Gmitter/9cc8c9efb8b18f3a093e93bf8e3f3f3b656ed382

It is far from being a sure-science but there seems to be a 10-20% success rate when following published procedures.

Does anyone have experience growing this and/or have a trustworthy source for seeds?

Best,
pp

Yuh on top of standard fertilization (I also use Jack's) I have been adding weekly fulvic & humic acid (https://chemboys.com/product/humic-liquid/) and mycorrhizae addition (https://plantrevolution.com/products/great-white). I have liked the results. That Great White mycorrhizae inoculant has been super impressive - have seen noticeable results after only using for about 1.5 months

This is sick - love all the PR you do for the fruit